Voltaire's parody of Leibnizian optimism in Candide. From Wordnik.com. [The Tests and the Brightest] Reference
This is close to a Leibnizian relationism about time. From Wordnik.com. [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference
“Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic,” Nous (22). From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics] Reference
Leibnizian conception of force, was rejected by Hume in the Treatise. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This antirationalism would have been unthinkable in a Leibnizian text. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Leibniz] Reference
Nor did the Leibnizian method of differentials escape Berkeley's strictures. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference
The academic rationalists of the post-Leibnizian school were aware that the word. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
And I'm certainly a Leibnizian — "We live in the best of all possible grids". From Wordnik.com. [Verification is Insurance! - SLOG] Reference
Leibnizian calculus of reasoning is the locus classicus of Peirce's form of pragmatism. From Wordnik.com. [PRAGMATISM] Reference
Finally, we note that there are really two distinct but related Leibnizian philosophies. From Wordnik.com. [Disbelief] Reference
“Leibnizian Relationalism and the Problem of Inertia,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy (17) 437-448. From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics] Reference
(PI) seems to be grounded in the Leibnizian thesis that all simple universals are logically compatible. From Wordnik.com. [States of Affairs] Reference
Lotze figures mathematical logic as contiguous with the Leibnizian project of a lingua characteristica. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann Lotze] Reference
But the Leibnizian background, correctly understood, gives much stronger support to Chomsky's innatism. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleeping Chess Player] Reference
Kant's references to Leibniz, though sporadic, reveal an ongoing interest in Leibnizian problems and concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Leibniz] Reference
Institutions de physiques, a systematic attempt to wed Newtonian mechanics with Leibnizian rationalism and metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
That distinction, in turn, forms a crucial component in Kant's extensive rejection of the Leibnizian doctrine of perception. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Views on Space and Time] Reference
He argued for a synthesis of Cartesian kinematics and Leibnizian dynamics, and did so at the expense of Newtonian mechanics. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
But I fail to see that this "Leibnizian background, correctly understood, gives much stronger support to Chomsky's innatism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sleeping Chess Player] Reference
What is clear but usually overlooked is that Bradley himself saw Leibnizian monadism as the greatest challenge to his own brand of idealism. From Wordnik.com. [Francis Herbert Bradley] Reference
But philosophical fashions change at least twice a century, and grand systemic metaphysics of the Leibnizian sort might one day come back into favor. From Wordnik.com. [Causal Determinism] Reference
As T.S. Eliot recognized, a Leibnizian strand pervades Bradley's philosophy, one which finds expression in his doctrine of finite centres of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Francis Herbert Bradley] Reference
Taken to ridiculous lengths by Wolff, Leibnizian optimism was targeted and satirized by Voltaire, who, however, took the problem of evil very seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Leibniz] Reference
Spinozistic basis of continuity and liberation, nor yet as a Leibnizian mediator among monads and between philosophical constructions and cosmic realities. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800] Reference
The theologian Lange in Halle had orchestrated Wolff's expulsion from Prussia (1723) and triggered a furious row over Wolff's Leibnizian leanings (1723-40). From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
In his eyes, the Leibnizian project entailed the search for a logical language which would provide “a universal mode of characterizing conceptions” (ibid., p. 272). From Wordnik.com. [Hermann Lotze] Reference
Many interpreters have thought that in the Critique of Pure Reason, and particularly in its first section, the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant attempts to engage the Leibnizian. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Views on Space and Time] Reference
Chomsky's innatism is an empirical hypothesis that will have to be verified or refuted on empirical evidence; its truth or falsity does not derive from its Leibnizian ancestry. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleeping Chess Player] Reference
Thus, the Kalam is a valuable supplement to the Leibnizian argument. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
Thus, the Kalam is a valuable supplement to the Leibnizian argument. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Leibnizian theory of Pre-established Harmony similarly refuses to admit any inter-causal relation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
It is fairly obvious that the Leibnizian monadology is the necessary outcome of any such philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Johann was tutored in mathematics by his brother and developed a mastery of the new Leibnizian calculus. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
Lambert strove to modify the Aristotelean logic in the direction of empiricism, sensism, or Leibnizian innatism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
In his theory of the union be tween body and soul, de la Forge approached the later Leibnizian doctrine of a pre-established harmony. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
To speak of an equivalence between the two is simply to curtail, and make almost unintelligible, the Spinozistic or Leibnizian metaphysic. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
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